Chart: Drop in union membership has taken $14 to $52 out of nonunion workers’ weekly wages: Additional weekly wages that nonunion private-sector workers would earn had the share of workers in a union (union density) remained the same as in 1979, 1979–2013 (2013 dollars)

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Drop in union membership has taken $14 to $52 out of nonunion workers' weekly wages: Additional weekly wages that nonunion private-sector workers would earn had the share of workers in a union (union density) remained the same as in 1979, 1979–2013 (2013 dollars)

Year	Men	Women
1979	0.00	0.00
1980	4.55	1.81
1981	7.34	2.50
1983	16.93	4.77
1984	22.11	6.18
1985	25.90	7.39
1986	28.29	8.14
1987	29.63	8.60
1988	31.24	9.19
1989	32.36	9.76
1990	33.57	10.07
1991	33.57	10.27
1992	33.58	10.57
1993	34.83	10.89
1995	38.96	11.74
1996	38.38	11.62
1997	40.31	12.33
1998	42.69	12.74
1999	43.50	12.84
2000	45.00	13.41
2001	46.29	13.48
2002	48.02	13.76
2003	49.62	13.91
2004	49.55	13.63
2005	50.49	13.89
2006	51.14	13.86
2007	51.98	14.09
2008	50.01	13.48
2009	50.07	12.87
2010	49.09	12.63
2011	50.08	13.48
2012	52.48	13.80
2013	$52.39	$13.80

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Notes: Sample restricted to nonunion full-time workers in the private sector ages 16 to 64. See the text and Methodological Appendix for details on the analysis.

Source: Authors’ compilations from the Current Population Survey (CPS) May Supplement microdata and CPS Outgoing Rotation Group microdata.

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